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No. 61,071. Patented Jan, 8. 1867.

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Lettere Patent No. 61,071, dated January S, 1867.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

4Be it known that I, MARSHALL J. HUNT, of Rising Sun, in the ceunty of Cecil, and State of Maryland, have invent-ed certain new and usefnlflmprovements in Machines for Planting and Cultivating Corn; and I do hereby declare thc-following to be a full, clear, and exact description of thegsame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part or" this specification, in Whichw Figure 1 represents a top plan of the machine.

Figure 2 represents a side viciv'ivith the wheel removed to better show the parts otherwise concealed by it.

Figures 3, 4, and 5 represent in different positionsl the cultivaters, and the manner of hanging, adjusting, removing, and replacing the same, as occasion may require.

Figures 6 and 7 represent respectively a top plan and section of the bottom of the seed-box, and the means. of regulating or adjusting the openings in it, through which the grains; pass to the furrovfs opened for them.

ASimilar letters of reference, where they occur in the several separate figures, denote like parts ofthe machine in all the drawings.

My invention relates more particularly to the manner in which I have arranged and combined/the several parts of the machine to adapt it to the varied operations which it is to perform, and the varied modes of planting and cultivating practised by farmers in'the same neighborhoods.

`To enable'others skilled in the art to `make and use my invention, I irill proceed to describe the same with reference to the drawings. i

The cultivator-frame A is hinged at its rear end to the .axle B by hinged straps C, and is supported by the axle at its rear and by thetongue D at its front, said axle beingV in'turn supported in the carrying-wheels E E', and the tongue being supported by the team that draws the machine. To the front cross-bar of the main frame, A, are pivoted, as at a, the beams F that carry each a standard or down-hanger and a' cultivator c, adjustably secured thereto, and the shoulders, d, of these beams are rounded off to admit of their being swung more toward or from each other at their rear ends, as may be required, and when at the proper position they are secured by means of the bar G and screws or pins, e, passing through it and into said beams. The fore and after pieces of the main frame A also carry cultivators, f, which may vary in form from those carried by the beams F or be of the same general style as those, c, which are more distinctly seen in figs. 3, 4:', and 5. On the axle B are placed pillar-blocks, H, so that, while they' are carried and supported by the axle, the latter may freely turn in them. On rthese pillar-blocks are fastened the levers I I, the front ends of which pass into or under loops g g on the front cro'ssspiece of the main frame, and their rear ends projecting beyond the pillanblocks, which serve as fulcra for them, have a drivers or operators seat, J", xed upon them, so thatv the weight of the driver or operator shall tend to balance or raise up the front end of the main frame. '.lo the pillar-blocks H is hinged, so as to be easily turned in its supports, a rod, h, having arms, z', projecting forward at each of its ends, to which argus the rear ends of fore and aft pieces ef the main frame, A, are suspended by links jy', so that while said rear ends maybe raised up by the lever la, which is also oonnectedto the r'od or rock-shaft It, they eanalso rise independent of the lifting lever, as when, for instance, the cultivators strike against o r pass overa stone orany other obstruction, the linksj admitting of this self-rising action. To one `of the levers I is fastened an are K, so as to be in close proximityrto the sweep of the lever'k, and to one of the series of adjusting holes in said are a button or catch Zis fastened that defines the extent to which the lever k can swing in that direction, and also the extent that the beams and cultivators can drop. Toward the rear of the are K there is a notch, m, into which a hooked lever, n, pivoted to the main lever c, can take and hold, for raising up and holding up the Whole cultivator-frame, at such 'distance above the ground as will allow the eultivator to pass over any ordinary obstacles in its path,or when not required in actual use. The cultivators c may be made of shear steel, and of the form shown in iig. v3, so that 'when bne end becomes worn it may be turned upside down and the other end used. They are fastened by screws or otherwise to cast-iron sockets, L, thathave wings, O O, upon them, and these sockets, L, slip on to the standards or down-hangers 6, and are secured thereto, after they are adjusted vertically and laterally thereon, by a set-screw, p, or other similar adjusting device. The hole in thesocket or cultivator-stoek, L, being round and the down-hanger being round, the former can be turned upon the latter so as to move the earth both ways or either way from the furrow it is opening, as may be preferred, and, Whennot required in actual use, they can be removed'from the down-hanger, leaving the latter in the main frame. The

front of the main frame is adjustable on the tongue, or the tongue upon the main frame, to adapt the machine.

to the horses necks and to the ground, as may be required; and the machine may be used for laying oii as well as for cultivating corn ground, it being adaptable to wider er narrower rows, as the user prefers. That the machine may be used for planting cern, I connect a bed-piece or frame, M, to the pillar-blocks Il by means or" pins or bolts q, so that it may be attached or detached at pleasure from the cultivator; and on this bed or frame I arrange the seed-boxes er hoppers r, divided by a partition, s, so that the v seed-slide t, which has two branches or limbs u zo, may operate in both apartments, and one apartment maycontain the seed corn and the other superphosphates, or anyother dry granular substance used for enriching soils, so that both may be sown together and in regulated quantities.

The sowing or dropping mechanism may be operated as follows, supposing the driving or carrying-wheel E to be fast on and to move the axle with itself: On the axle I place a bevel-gear, N, that turns a pinion, O, and on the shaft of' this pinion I place a crank-wheel, v, to an adjustable wrist, in which a pitman, w, is attached, said pitman at its other end passing between guide-pins 1 1 in the end of a vibrating lever, P, pivoted at its centre on the bed or frame M, and the pitman has a notch or recess in it, which catches over the lever I), and thus vibrates said lever. At equaldistanccs on each side of its centre of motion the lever P has connected with it rods :n a', which connect with the seed-slides t t and work both of them simultaneously, so that two rows shall be planted at a timeand be directly opposite each other. The seed and other material dropped from the boxes or hoppers fall into the guiding tubes or troughs, y, and are carried and dropped into the furrowis immediately behind the cultivators or shovels that open the furrows, and a covercr, @throws the earth over them. N A bent crank-lever, 2, `is so connected to the bed or frame, M, as that the raising up of the main frame to stop its working shall throw out the seeding mechanism and stop it as follows: The front bent arm, 3, of the lever, 2, extends across the heel of the tongue D, and its rear bent. arm, 4, passes under the pitman w, so that as the tongue rises, which it does with the frame, it turns the lever 2, and turning the lever raises the pitman 'from its connection with thc lever P, and o f course the slides t t remain at rest. To adjust the openings in the bottomsof the seedboxcs or hoppers, I use a flanged vmetal plate, 5, gs. 6 and 7, by which said opening may be made larger er smaller, as required, and when so adjusted a set-screw and' nut, 6, holds it. While I prefer to make the down-hangers round, they, as well as the sockets, may be of other forms and still admit of adjustments and changes herein described.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim therein as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. Hinging the rearot' the cultivator-frame to the axle, and to a lever in close proximity to the drivcrs scat, and supporting its front by a tongue and the necks of the team, so that it may be self-raising to pass over any obstruction, and be raised by the driver, when desirable to do so, and hdld up by a catch, substantially as herein described. v

2. I alsopclain, in combination with the standards or down-hangers b, a. cast or other iron socket or stock L, with wings o o for holding the cultivators and allowing them to be adjusted, removed, or replaced, substantially as' described.

3. I also claim a removable and replacable bed or frame M for carrying a seeding mechanism, substantially such as described, so that the machine maybe used for laying oit' the ground, planting corn, and cultivating it in rows, as herein described and represented.

MARSHALL J. HUNT.

Witnesses:

A. B. SToUcn'roN, EDM. F. BROWN. 

